Your Alma Mater’s Biggest Rival? Stingy State Government

[applegrove]

by James Carville at the Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/21/your-alma-mater-s-biggest-rival-stingy-state-government.html

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Unfortunately, that’s what a lot of politicians have been doing lately, particularly those legislators of the conservative stripe. They may show their school spirit on Saturday while watching the game. But on Monday, many go to work with the intention of decimating every other aspect of that very same institution—the laboratories, the classrooms, the science fairs, and debate societies. Go visit any state capital, and you’ll likely find that conservatives have been engaged in a long, brutal battle to starve America’s finest colleges of funding.

Look at Wisconsin, for example, where the conservative governor, Scott Walker, has taken cheddar cheese grater to the higher ed budget. After he slashed $300 million from the University of Wisconsin system last year, the flagship campus in Madison had to fire 400 employees and cancel 320 courses.

Or there’s Kansas, where the Koch Brothers’ sock-puppet, Sam Brownback, just welcomed all the Jayhawks back to school with a 5 percent education cut across the board.

Then, there’s my alma mater, Louisiana State University. Thanks to Governor Bobby "Rebellion Is Brewing" Jindal, the school has lost 80 percent of its government funding over the past eight years. My daughter is beginning her freshman year there now, and by the time she finishes her mid-terms, there might not be a nursing program.


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[applegrove]

1. It is almost like the GOP does not want to have to pay graduates the market rate. Make people

desperate and they'll work for you for peanuts.

[tonyt53]

2. KY too, but the state high court ruled against him yesterday.

These guys are all using the same playbook to wreck education at all levels.

[Stallion]

3. All 3 Major Texas State Universities Dropped Significantly in Last USNR Ratings

Texas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech

and what is more delicious is SMU tied UT at 56 and Baylor moved ahead of Texas A&M-really upset some alumni at those state schools

Texas now has only one school ranked in Top 50-Rice at somewhere around 13. Meanwhile California has 10 in the Top 50